Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
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I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.
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The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.
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In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
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Peace is its own reward.
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
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Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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'Winner' is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn't hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.
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I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.
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When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
